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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precise role of the Russians was difficult to define. It seemed impossible that Moscow, which has advisers throughout the Syrian army, was unaware of Damascus' intention to invade. The Russians may not have known the extent of the thrust, however, Moscow made every public pose of trying to check the fighting. Yet some U.S. analysts speculated that the Russians might have been playing a clever double role: instructing their advisers with the Syrian army to let the tanks roll, but to appear as the peace saver by pulling them back if they failed. It was not necessarily that the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Mid East: Search for Stability | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...struggle was going. During ten days of battle, between the Jordanian army and the guerrillas of the Palestine liberation movement, the army seized several fedayeen strongholds in and around Amman, practically destroyed a guerrilla redoubt not far from the capital at Zerká, mauled a larger force of Syrian tanks and troops, and laid siege in the north near Syria to guerrilla-held Irbid, Jordan's second-largest city after Amman. The royal army said it had captured an estimated 5,000 prisoners, including the two top aides to Yasser Arafat, head of Al-Fatah and the Palestine Liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jordan: The Battle Ends; the War Begins | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

Even as the street fighting continued in Amman, Hussein's generals turned their attention to a different kind of war in the countryside. Three days after the fighting began, a force of armored vehicles crossed the border from Syria at Ramtha, moving at night. The Syrians insisted that the force, numbering close to 5,000 men and including almost 250 tanks, belonged to the guerrillas' Palestine Liberation Army. Indeed, the vehicles did bear the red and olive-green emblems of the P.L.A. Actually, the emblems had been hastily painted, and most of the equipment and troops belonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jordan: The Battle Ends; the War Begins | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...Syrian tank column was challenged near Ramtha junction by a smaller force of Jordanian armor whose vehicles carried the black, white, green and red Hashemite flag along with pictures of the King. Hussein's order to his troops, the best in the Arab world, was to "stand fast and teach the heretic leaders of Syria a lesson in heroism." His 40th and 60th armored brigades did just that. First they blunted the Syrian invasion by knocking out 40 tanks. In an armored tactic known as "the loop," the 40th hit the Syrians head-on while the 60th rolled around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jordan: The Battle Ends; the War Begins | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...Jordanian flyers had the sky almost to themselves. The Syrian air force never showed up, probably because Damascus was worried about Israel and was also feeling pressure from Moscow to withdraw. Furthermore, once its planes entered into combat, Syria could no longer disclaim responsibility for the invasion. But from time to time a flight of eight Israeli Mirages showed up over the battlefield near Irbid. The Israeli jets took no part in the battle; they were there to take pictures of the fighting-as were a number of U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes. An Israeli source said that the Mirages were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jordan: The Battle Ends; the War Begins | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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